Queenstown, New Zealand, is gearing up for 2015’s Asian Business Angel Forum. The event runs from 14-16 October 2015 with an impressive line-up of business angels from all over the world.

Among the investment experts coming to New Zealand to share their knowledge and networks is managing partner of Jungle Ventures, Jayesh Parekh.

Mr Parekh has accumulated an extensive portfolio of technology, media and social impact investments with over ten exit or acquisition events among them.

He is also well placed to provide attendees of #ABAF15NZ with an authoritative view on funds and the benefit of angel networks, incubators and accelerators as a partner in a wide range of early-stage business growth and investment vehicles including Jungle Ventures, 500 Startups and Mumbai Angels.

Jayesh is a Singapore citizen and lives there with his family where he is actively involved in the ecosystem. He is Chief Mentor at the Hub Singapore, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD, an Executive Advisor to NUS (National University of Singapore) Enterprise and a TiE (Tech In Asia) Charter Member. As a judge at TiE’s Startup arena in Jakarta in 2014, Tech in Asia’s biggest Startup Asia to date with 2,202 participants, Jayesh was on the judging panel coaching founders to clearly articulate their monetization strategies.

Jayesh also works with existing businesses to help them apply a more entrepreneurial mindset and approach to their enterprises. He delivers in-company presentations and often facilitates deep discussions with sales and marketing and business development teams to help them embrace corporate entrepreneurship as a way to identify new business opportunities.

In his long list of achievements Jayesh counts being a co-founder of Sony Entertainment Television, a major network launched in collaboration with Sony Pictures Entertainment and his board membership of One Animation, Shemaroo, Milaap, and investment in Asvathaa (gaming & animation), Game Ventures (online gaming) and eBus (TV commercial digital distribution).

He is also a passionate advocate and investor in ventures which give back to the community with roles on the Boards of social enterprise focused ventures such as the Investment Committee of Aavishkaar India, which invests in enterprises active in the social infrastructure sector in rural and underserved India. He was on the board of SONG, a fund owned by George Soros which invests in SMEs in India that meet social objectives. He served on the Board of United Way International for six years and is a founder of ProPoor, a non-profit portal for Non-Governmental Organizations in South Asia, and now a service of CharityFocus.

You can follow Jayesh on Twitter and meet and hear from him in person, along with a host of angels from New Zealand’s angel investment community and the world at one the southern hemisphere’s largest angel investor events Asian Business Angels Forum, Queenstown, October 14-15. Seats are now very limited. Be quick to register yours.

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